Splendid peasant girl busy farming

Chapter 3738
After settling down with Xiao An, Yang Ruoqing went back to the yard of her house next door and began to eagerly read the letter.

There was not much content in the letter, and it was probably related to the affairs of Tianhai County, so Tang Yazi only mentioned the matter of seeing off the relatives in the letter.

To put it bluntly, it is to explain his whereabouts to her daughter-in-law here.

Probably the situation is similar to what he told her when he was at home earlier, the team to see off the relatives departs from the capital on the sixth day of the fifth lunar month.

All the way across the state and across the county, if the original plan is followed, he will be able to reach Tianhai County in more than a month, that is, in mid-June.

But these nine princesses are golden branches and jade leaves, and they have never left the imperial city since they grew up. The farthest place they have been to is Xishan Waihun.

This trip to marry Tianhai County is nothing to Luo Fengtang and others who have been traveling all year round.

But for the nine princesses, this means crossing thousands of mountains and rivers, walking on land all the way, and she gets motion sickness.

After changing the waterway, she got seasick, vomited until she was almost dehydrated, and almost gave her life.

Because of this delicate and expensive Ninth Princess, the whole sending team stopped and stopped, and walked for more than two months, which should have been completed in more than a month.

I left Beijing on the sixth day of May and arrived on the eighth day of July.

"It's the twelfth of July, and the princess's send-off team has settled down at the post house in Tianhai County," Yang Ruoqing pondered silently in her heart,

"The date of the big wedding is set on the Dragon Boat Festival on the [-]th day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar, that is to say, there is still a whole month to go."

"It's been nearly four months in Tianhai County, Da'an District, and I don't know how the investigation of the whereabouts of the money that the governor of Tianhai County has embezzled is going well?"

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Xiaoan came back to the village this time, just in time for the July [-]th Ghost Festival.

The Ghost Festival is for offering sacrifices to ancestors. Before the Ghost Festival last year, the Sun family had already left Changping Village for the capital under the escort of Yang Ruoqing.

Yang Huazhong was left alone at home to handle all this, deserted and deserted.

But this year is different.

Although Da'an was not at home, Xiao'an happened to be back and was able to help Yang Huazhong with these things.

In addition, Feng'er, the eldest grandson, was also at home, and Yang Huazhong's house was very lively.

On the ghost festival day, the people from Sanfang followed Lao Yangtou and the others went to the Mianniu Mountain behind the village to worship their ancestors.

On the second day after the ancestor worship, Xiao An left for Qing'an County.

Before leaving, Mrs. Sun stuffed autumn clothes into Xiao An's baggage, as well as Xiao An's favorite food.

After seeing Xiao An off, Mrs. Sun looked towards the end of the road, still reluctant to part.

Yang Ruoqing put her arms around Sun's shoulders, and comforted her: "Mother, people's hearts are not enough to swallow an elephant. In the past, my younger brother followed Tang Yazi to the battlefield, and you were worried at home and never had a good night's sleep."

"Now my younger brother has found a good job in the nearby Qing'an County, and you are here again, saying that you are far away from home."

"If you are like this, how about I chase my brother back and tell him not to go anywhere, so how about staying at home with our father to take care of the crops?"

Sun quickly shook her head: "Don't, don't, don't, I'm just talking casually, it's just a habit..."

Yang Ruoqing smiled without saying a word.

Mrs. Sun continued: "The current situation is the best. I can come back every quarter. I am very satisfied and relieved."

"That's right, let's go, let's go back to the house, your eldest grandson should wake up later, and I want your grandma to take him to the village to play in the afternoon!"

Under the old maple tree at the entrance of the village, every morning before the sun rises, and every evening after the sun sets,
A group of old women with children gathered under the old maple tree.

The daughters-in-law have to go out to work and have no time to stay at home to take care of the children. The grandmothers are basically doing the work of taking care of the children.

So under the old maple tree became their paradise, and Sun joined in, pushing Yang Huazhong's small cart made of green bamboo and taking Feng'er to enjoy the cool, play and listen to gossip under the old maple tree.

"Qing'er, you're still eating watermelon here, and you're still in the mood to eat watermelon. There's something wrong with the old house!"

Yang Huamei ran out of breath and came to look for Yang Ruoqing, just in time Yang Ruoqing was eating watermelon.

When she eats watermelon, she directly cuts the watermelon in half, holds a spoon in her arms and scoops it up.

Seeing Yang Huamei come in, Yang Ruoqing directly pushed the other half of the watermelon beside her.

"Auntie, eat watermelon." She said.

Yang Huamei said: "Don't eat, don't eat, I'm not in the mood to eat, something happened in the old house again, someone from the Hu family came!"

"The Hu family?" Yang Ruoqing spat out the watermelon seeds in her mouth, "Which Hu family?"

"Which other Hu family can there be? Of course it's the Hu family in Jishui Town, the Hu family from He'er last time!" Yang Huamei said.

Yang Ruoqing was stunned, and put down the spoon: "Why, why are people coming from the Hu family? That member of the Hu family, Wai Kaichun, was beheaded at Washikou."

"Mrs. Hu also died of illness. The daughter-in-law eloped with the housekeeper's son and took the money. The Hu family is empty. Why are you still here? Are you visiting relatives?"

The latter sentence was originally a joke, but Yang Huamei said: "You are really right, I really came to visit relatives, a brother from the dead Hu member came to find your fourth uncle by name, and And with the kids."

"Child?" Yang Ruoqing opened her eyes wide, "Could it be... the son He'er gave birth to?"

When Yang Ruoqing was dragged by Yang Huamei to the old house of the old Yang family, villagers gathered in the front and back yards of the old Yang's house to watch the excitement.

Even the women whose sites were supposed to be under the old maple tree moved here with their children to watch the fun.

In the backyard of Lao Yang's house, there were many stools. Lao Yangtou, Mrs. Tan, Mrs. Liu, and Yang Ruohe were all there.

Xiaojuan also stood at a distance with her dog's egg in her arms, closing her ears to listen.

On a bench in the middle of the yard, there was another middle-aged couple sitting. Judging by the clothes they were wearing, they didn't look rich.

The man's elbow is still patched, and a bamboo hairpin is stuck in the woman's bun.

In the arms of the woman, there is still a child. The child looks about ten months old. The child is held in the arms of the woman, neither crying nor fussing, with his eyes open, looking up at the sky, as if the strange things in front of him Adults have nothing to do with him.

"Look at that child, he really looks like He'er!"

Yang Huamei secretly touched Yang Ruoqing's elbow, and said in a low voice.

Yang Ruoqing said: "This kid is so courageous, other kids would have cried when they saw this scene."

Yang Huamei said: "Children with no father and no mother are probably like this. My Dabai and Xiaohei are spoiled by the whole family, so they are so timid and timid."

Yang Ruoqing said: "I think Dabai and Xiaohei are pretty good, but Auntie, you are too demanding of them."

However, Yang Ruoqing felt that her aunt's words seemed to have a grain of truth.

Chen'er never grew up by her parents' side since she was a child, but how many children of the same age can Chen'er find in Daqi to compare with?
(End of this chapter)